(do) 
ive) 
or 
ICTERUS.—EUPHAGUS. 
Icterus leucopteryx ( Wayg/.). 
(Plate XVII. figs. 18 & 21.) 
Icterus leucopteryx, Gosse, Birds Jamaica, p. 226 (1847); Sel. Cat. 
Birds B. M. xi. p. 887 (1886); Ridgw. Birds North § Middle 
Amer. ii. p. 808 (1902) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. y. p. 505 (1909). 
Eggs of the Jamaican Hangnest or Banana-Bird are of a rather 
pointed oval shape, and almost or quite devoid of gloss, The 
ground is pale buffy-white or brownish-white with a tracery of 
fine lines and blotched lines round the cap, one specimen being 
especially handsomely and boldly marked. Three eggs measure 
respectively : ‘98 by °68; -96 by -66; and ‘93 by °66. 
1. Jamaica. Crowley Bequest. 
2. Port Henderson, Jamaica, 27th Crowley Bequest. 
June (C. B. Taylor). 
Genus EUPHAGUS, Cassin. 
Euphagus carolinus (P. LZ. S. Miill.). 
Scolecophagus ferrugineus, Baird, Brewer § Ridgw, N. Amer. Burds, ii. 
p- 203 (1874); Banks, Auk, ii. p. 106 (1885); Sel. Cat. Birds B. M. 
xi. p. 390 (1886); Nehrk. Kat. Liersammil. p. 108 (1899). 
Scolecophagus carolinus, MacFarlane, Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 440 
(1891); Bendire, Life-Hist. N. Amer. Birds, ii. p. 489, pl. vii. 
figs. 14-16 (1895); Ridgw. Birds North § Middle Amer. ii. p. 246 
(1902). 
Euphagus earolinus, Sharpe, Hand-l. y. p.506 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eier- 
samml. p. 346 (1910). 
The eggs of the Rusty Grackle are of two types. In one, they 
are of an ordinary, but somewhat pointed, oval shape, moderately 
glossy, and pale bluish-green, blotched, smeared and mottled with 
pale brown or pinkish-brown and lavender-grey. In the second 
type, the eggs are of a blunt oval shape, almost elliptical, and 
rather highly glossy. They are greenish-grey, very densely mottled 
all over with dark brown and dull lavender, little of the ground 
being visible. Eight examples measure from 1 to 1:1 in length, 
and from ‘72 to ‘77 in breadth. 
1. [North-West America] (J. J. Au- Crowley Bequest. 
dubon: Tristram Coll.). 
3. North-West America. Gould Coll. 
J]. Anderson River, Arctic America, Salvin-Godmam Coll. 
June (R. MacFarlane: Hen- 
shaw Coll.). 
3. Anderson River, June (2. Mack. : Salvin-Godman Coll. 
Smiths. Inst.). 
